More than 100 compelling, true stories of personal heroism and valor– in a special expanded edition honoring courage in the face of war Here are dramatic accounts of the fearless actions that earned American soldiers in Vietnam our highest military distinction–the Medal of Honor. Edward F. Murphy, head of the Medal of Honor Historical Society, re-creates the heroic acts of individual soldiers from official documents, Medal of Honor citations, contemporary accounts, and, where possible, interviews with survivors. Complete with a list of all Vietnam Medal of Honor recipients, this book offers a unique perspective on the war–from the early days of U.S. involvement through the return home of the last soldiers. It pays a fitting tribute to these patriotic, selfless souls. From the Paperback edition.

Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes

History

Murphy, Edward

Asia

Ballantine Books

Chronicles the five-month 1967 battle during which the 173rd Airborne Brigade, an all-volunteer paratrooper unit, landed on hostile territory and fought the elements and the enemy in a struggle for Hill 875. Original.

Dak to: America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands

Americas

Pocket

From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that continues to this day. In analyzing the causes and consequences of this struggle, Murphy reveals a crucial connection between homeownership and understandings of proper behavior and governance. This link between property and propriety has been at the root of a powerful, contested urban politics central to both social activism and urban development projects. Through projects of reform, revolution, and reaction, a right to housing and homeownership has been a significant symbol of governmental benevolence and poverty reduction. Under Pinochet’s neoliberalism, subsidized housing and slum eradication programs displaced many squatters, while awarding them homes of their own. This process, in addition to ongoing forms of activism, has permitted the vast majority of squatters to live in homes with property titles, a momentous change of the past half-century. This triumph is tempered by the fact that today the urban poor struggle with high levels of unemployment and underemployment, significant debt, and a profoundly segregated and hostile urban landscape. They also find it more difficult to mobilize than in the past, and as homeowners they can no longer rally around the cause of housing rights. Citing cultural theorists from Marx to Foucault, Murphy directly links the importance of home ownership and property rights among Santiago’s urban poor to definitions of Chilean citizenship and propriety. He explores how the deeply embedded liberal belief system of individual property ownership has shaped political, social, and physical landscapes in the city. His approach sheds light on the role that social movements and the gendered contours of home life have played in the making of citizenship. It also illuminates processes through which squatters have received legally sanctioned homes of their own, a phenomenon of critical importance in cities throughout much of Latin America and the Global South.

For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010 (Pitt Latin American Series, 349)

University of Pittsburgh Press

The stories of each of the Medal of Honor winners interwoven into an overview history of the Korean War.

Korean War Heroes

Presidio Press

“Excellent . . . honest and realistic . . . Edward Murphy’s meticulous research is unflawed and his writing style is novel-like.”—San Antonio Express-News “A no-holds barred account . . . highly recommended.”—Military magazine In June 1967, General William Westmoreland sent the 173d Airborne Brigade to Dak To, a mountainous region in the deadly Central Highlands. Here the 173d found itself locked in mortal combat, facing tremendous odds against a professional, well-trained enemy hidden under triple-canopy jungle and deeply entrenched in fortified positions, bunkers, and tunnels. Edward F. Murray captures the conflict in all its horror and heroism in this graphic account drawn from letters, diaries, official reports, and interviews with more than eighty veterans of the campaign. Outmanned, exhausted, often cut off from supplies and communication, America’s “Sky Soldiers” battled back with incredible valor to rout the NVA in some of the fiercest combat of the entire Vietnam War. “Fast-paced . . . an impressive immediacy.”—Publishers Weekly

Dak To: America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial reproduction and underlying tensions in the political order. Drawing on cutting edge perspectives from urban studies, this book grants renewed, interdisciplinary energy to the housing question. It explores how housing raises a series of vexing issues surrounding rights, identity, and justice in the modern city. Through finely detailed studies that illuminate national and regional particularities- ranging from analyses of urban planning in the Soviet Union, the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans, to squatting in contemporary Lima - the volume underscores how housing questions matter in a wide range of contexts. It draws attention to ruptures and continuities between high modernist and neoliberal forms of urbanism, demonstrating how housing and the dilemmas surrounding it are central to governance and the production of space in a rapidly urbanizing world.

The Housing Question (Global Urban Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City (Global Urban Studies)

Hourani, Najib B.

Ed Murphy has spent over 40 years hunting Pennsylvania's forests and fields. From his earliest memories to his most recent adventures Ed has experienced a lot. A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter chronicles the most interesting, informative, humorous, and poignant stories of his forty plus years of hunting. From the disappointment of a missed opportunity to the joy of his sons' first hunts Ed brings the reader on a fascinating trip through the decades. A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter will make you think, laugh, and cry. In the end we're sure it will make you smile.

A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Mike O'Malley was looking forward to the upcoming year. The new college graduate had decided to take a year off before pursuing his dream of becoming a high school history teacher. Mike wanted to spend some quality time with his father before he had to move away to find a teaching position.What Mike would find in a few short months was a new home, a new job, and the love of his life. Along the way his integrity and character would be tested. He would be disappointed by people he trusted. He would be personally attacked and maligned. Ultimately his faith in the decency of people would be restored.Join the rookie coach on his journey through Life and Basketball.

Life and Basketball

Basketball

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